Since an invention is some piece of advanced (advanced meaning not surpassed in capability) technology, won't mankind eventually come to a point when the then existing technology is so advanced that humans experience no need to create new inventions?
I have heard a similar scenario dealing with scientists attempts to mix computers with the human body, thus opening the possibility of a sort of artificial happiness, in which humans could solely create happiness through electrical or chemical processes. This happiness would stop all of mankind's progress because humans wouldn't have to do anything for entertainment and would no longer be challenged, or, at least, wouldn't be concerned with challenges. This would be the point in time in which inventions, things that make life easier, would become obsolete.
I suppose people would think up ways to invent the proverbial "better mouse trap", but it wouldn't be the same as inventing something truly important.
So, what do you think?
2007-02-13
10:13:58
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